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A RARE IMPERIAL CARVED CINNABAR ᪺̗㡳 צ☾ᔅՌ͘㣅⸃⭧૔♄᢬ᑝഢ↥㐨໷༄
LACQUER TREASURE BOX AND STAND ϝᬝ
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) ᯧஇ☆՞Ⅷ⻦
The square box is carved on the top with a wan symbol centred ࢈՗ᘢ༈⻦ᝳӬ։ऱ᧙໸ჺԳ㪏卿ཨ༿㖅ഌ⎏⡻᨞㫌㢶⡠ူℱᙹ⏁卿㉑
with a shou roundel. The black-bordered angular key-fret pattern ㈷⯝ទᐽ৅⏟㘆卿ᐯྃ㧿㪛㖅അսໄᘞ䁉ὸ೭卿ⶬ㢙ᙻǶᘢ༈⣌ݱ厍᳖
is carved with the Eight Daoist Emblems amidst bats and shou ༈ࡺㅛஎݱǷ卿࢈՗卿 ჺ卿㮰 卻ॲː卼ǯऔ㇦Ӭ։ཨ༿㖅ཎ⎏
plaques on a diaper-ground. Each of the four sides of the box with ༾⏁卿ᐽ㐈ᙻ㲞ᳰצ೥ᇑ卿 ჺ ᝲ ᚚ卿ᐽ৅ ⽚ǯ
two diaper-ground panels centred with gilt-metal handles shaped
as bats, each right-hand panel opening to reveal a drawer. All
raised on a separate square stand with key-fret borders and scroll
feet at the corners.
7¬ in. (19.5 cm.) square
HK$600,000-800,000 US$77,000-100,000
PROVENANCE
A French private collection
See a related jade-inlaid zitan square treasure box of similar
composition but larger in size, also dated Qianlong period, in the Beijing
Palace Museum Collection, in which the drawers were comparted to
store snuff bottles, illustrated in Classics of the Forbidden City: The
Imperial Packing Art of Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2007, p.162 (fig. 1). A
slightly smaller box was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 November
2005, lot 1568.
fig. 1 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
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